Compliments Of The Soviet Bloc

A massive, ruddy-faced, black-tuxedoed waiter with iron-gray hair embraced Guillermo. "This is Lupcho," Guillermo told me. "He reads palms."

"He looks just like Brezhnev," I replied.

Guillermo translated what I had said to Lupcho, who beamed, thanking me for the compliment.

- Balkan Ghosts by Robert Kaplan, pg. 199